The original
purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed
center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows
the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with
urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems
that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for
real development and life.

Five years
after the Millennium Summit, the harsh reality is that the great
majority of the goals - which were very modest indeed - will not
be met.

We pretended
reducing by half the 842 million hungry people by the year 2015.
At the current rate that goal will be achieved by the year 2215.
Who in this audience will be there to celebrate it? That is only
if the human race is able to survive the destruction that threatens
our natural environment. We had claimed the aspiration of achieving
universal primary education by the year 2015. At the current rate
that goal will be reached after the year 2100.

This
UN does not work.
We have to say it. It is the truth.

Friends
of the world, this takes us to a sad conclusion: The United Nations
has exhausted its model, and it is not all about reform. The 21st
century claims deep changes that will only be possible if a new
organization is founded. This UN does not work. We have to say
it. It is the truth.

These transformations
- the ones Venezuela is referring to - have, according to us,
two phases: The immediate phase and the aspiration phase, a utopia.
The first is framed by the agreements that were signed in the
old system. We do not run away from them. We even bring concrete
proposals in that model for the short term. But the dream of an
everlasting world peace, the dream of a world not ashamed by hunger,
disease, illiteracy, extreme poverty, needs - apart from roots
- to spread its wings to fly. We need to spread our wings and
fly.

We are
aware of a frightening neoliberal globalization, but there is
also the reality of an interconnected world that we have to face
not as a problem but as a challenge.
We could, on the basis of national realities, exchange knowledge,
integrate markets, interconnect, but at the same time we must
understand that there are problems that do not have a national
solution: radioactive clouds, world oil prices, diseases, warming
of the planet or the hole in the ozone layer. These are not domestic
problems.

As
we stride toward a new
United Nations model that includes all of us when they talk about
the people, we are bringing four indispensable and urgent reform
proposals to this Assembly: the first; the expansion of the Security
Council in its permanent categories as well as the non-permanent
categories, thus allowing new developed and developing countries
as new permanent and non-permanent categories.

We
could, on the basis of national realities, exchange knowledge,
integrate markets, interconnect, but at
the same time we must understand
that there are problems that do not
have a national solution:
radioactive clouds, world oil prices,
diseases, warming of the planet or the
hole in the ozone layer. These are not
domestic problems.

The
second; we need to assure the necessary improvement of the work
methodology in order to increase transparency, not to diminish
it.

The
third; we need to immediately suppress - we have said this repeatedly
in Venezuela for the past six years - the veto taken by the Security
Council, that elitist trace is incompatible with democracy, incompatible
with the principles of equality and democracy.

And
the fourth; we
need to strengthen the role of the Secretary General; his/ her
political functions regarding preventive diplomacy, that role
must be consolidated. The seriousness of all problems calls for
deep transformations. Mere reforms are not enough to recover that
"we" all the peoples of the world are waiting for. More
than just reforms we in Venezuela call for the foundation of a
new United Nations, or as the teacher of Simón Bolívar,
Simón Rodríguez said: "Either we invent or
we err."

At
the Porto Alegre World Social Forum last January different personalities
asked for the United Nations to move outside the United States
if the repeated violations to international rule of law continue.
Today, we know that there were never any weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq. The people of the United States have always been very
rigorous in demanding the truth to their leaders; the people of
the world demand the same. There were never any weapons of mass
destruction; however, Iraq was bombed, occupied and it is still
occupied. All this happened despite the United Nations.

We
need to immediately suppress -
we have said this repeatedly
in Venezuela for the past six years -
the veto taken by the Security Council,
that elitist trace is incompatible with
democracy, incompatible with the
principles of equality and democracy.

That is why
we propose this to Assembly, that the United Nations should leave
a country that does not respect the resolutions taken by this
same Assembly. Some proposals have pointed out to Jerusalem as
an international city as an alternative. The proposal is generous
enough to propose an answer to the current conflict affecting
Palestine. Nonetheless, it may have some characteristics that
could make it very difficult to become a reality. That is why
we are bringing a proposal made by Simón Bolívar,
the great Liberator of the South, in 1815.
Bolívar proposed then the creation of an international
city that would host the idea of unity.

We
believe it is time to think about the creation of an international
city with its own sovereignty, with its own strength and morality
to represent all nations of the world. Such an international city
has to balance five centuries of unbalance. The headquarters of
the United Nations must be in the South.

Ladies and
gentlemen, we are facing an unprecedented energy crisis in which
an unstoppable increase of energy demand is perilously reaching
record highs, as well as the incapability to increase oil supply
and the prospect of a decline in the known reserves of fuel worldwide.
Oil is starting to become exhausted.

For the year
2020, the daily demand for oil will be 120 million barrels. Such
demand, even without counting future increments - would consume
in 20 years what humanity has used up to now. This means that
more carbon dioxide will inevitably be increased, thus warming
our planet even more.

Today,
we know that there were
never any weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq. The people of the United States
have always been very rigorous in
demanding the truth to their leaders;
the people of the world demand
the same. There were never any
weapons of mass destruction;
however, Iraq was bombed,
occupied and it is still occupied.

Hurricane
Katrina has been a painful example of the cost of ignoring such
realities. The warming of the oceans is the fundamental factor
behind the increasing strength of the hurricanes we have witnessed
in the last years. Let this occasion be an opportunity to send
our deepest condolences to the people of the United States. Their
people are brothers and sisters of all of us in the Americas and
the rest of the world.

It is unpractical
and unethical to sacrifice the human race by appealing in an insane
manner for the validity of a socio-economic model that has a galloping
destructive capacity. It would be suicidal to spread it and impose
it as an infallible remedy for the evils that are caused precisely
by them.

Not too long
ago the President of the United States went to an Organization
of American States meeting to propose Latin America and
the Caribbean increase market-oriented policies, open market policies
- that is neo-liberalism - when it is precisely the fundamental
cause of the great evils and the great tragedies currently suffered
by our people - the neoliberal capitalism, the Washington Consensus.
All this has generated is a high degree of misery, inequality
and infinite tragedy for all the peoples on his continent.

What we need
now more than ever Mr. President is a new international order.
Let us recall the United Nations General assembly in its sixth
extraordinary session in 1974, 31 years ago, where a new International
Economic Order action plan was adopted, as well as the States
Economic Rights and Duties Charter by an overwhelming majority,
120 votes for the motion, 6 against and 10 abstentions.

We
believe it is time to think about the
creation of an international city
with its own sovereignty, with its own
strength and morality to represent
all nations of the world.

This was
the period when voting was possible at the United Nations. Now
it is impossible to vote. Now they approve documents such as this
one [the new "outcome document"?] which I denounce
on behalf of Venezuela as null, void and illegitimate. This document
was approved violating the current laws of the United Nations.
This document is invalid! This document should be discussed; the
Venezuelan government will make it public. We cannot accept an
open and shameless dictatorship in the United Nations. These matters
should be discussed and that is why I petition my colleagues,
heads of states and heads of governments, to discuss it.

I just came
from a meeting with President Néstor Kirchner and well,
I was pulling this document out; this document was handed out
five minutes before - and only in English - to our delegation.
This document was approved by a dictatorial hammer which I am
here to denounce as illegal, null, void and illegitimate.

Hear this,
Mr. President: if we accept this, we are indeed lost. Let us turn
off the lights, close all doors and windows! That would be unbelievable:
us accepting a dictatorship here in this hall.

Now more
than ever - we are saying - we need to retake ideas that were
left on the road such as the proposal approved at this Assembly
in 1974 regarding a New Economic International Order. Article
2 of that text confirms the right of states to nationalize the
property and natural resources that belonged to foreign investors.
It also proposed to create cartels of raw material producers.

The
warming of the oceans is the
fundamental factor behind the
increasing strength of the hurricanes
we have witnessed in the last years.

In the Resolution
3021, May, 1974, the Assembly expressed its will to work with
utmost urgency in the creation of a New Economic International
Order based on - listen carefully, please - "the equity,
sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation
among all states regardless of their economic and social systems,
correcting the inequalities and repairing the injustices among
developed and developing countries, thus assuring present and
future generations, peace, justice and a social and economic development
that grows at a sustainable rate."

The main
goal of the New Economic International Order was to modify the
old economic order conceived at Breton Woods.

We the people
now claim - this is the case of Venezuela - a new international
economic order. But it is also urgent to build a new international
political order. Let us not permit a few countries to reinterpret
the principles of International Law in order to impose new doctrines
such as "pre-emptive warfare". Oh do they threaten us
with that pre-emptive war! And what about the "Responsibility
to Protect" doctrine? We need to ask ourselves, "Who
is going to protect us? How are they going to protect us?"

I believe
one of the countries that require protection is precisely the
United States. That was shown painfully with the tragedy caused
by Hurricane Katrina; they did not have a government that protects
them from a foreseen natural disaster, if we are going to talk
about protecting each other; these are very dangerous concepts
that shape imperialism, interventionism as they try to legalize
the violation of national sovereignty.

It
is urgent to fight, in an efficient
manner, international terrorism.
Nonetheless, we must not use it as
an excuse to launch unjustified military
aggressions which violate international
law. Such has been the doctrine
following September 11.

The
full respect towards the principles of International Law and the
United Nations Charter must be, Mr. President, the keystone for
international relations in todays world and the base for
the new order we are currently proposing.

It is urgent
to fight, in an efficient manner, international terrorism. Nonetheless,
we must not use it as an excuse to launch unjustified military
aggressions which violate international law.
Such has been the doctrine following September 11. Only a true
and close cooperation and the end of the double discourse that
some countries of the North apply regarding terrorism, could end
this terrible calamity.

In
just seven years of Bolivarian Revolution, the people of Venezuela
can claim important social and economic advances.

One
million four hundred and six thousand Venezuelans learned to read
and write. We are 25 million total. And the country will - in
a few days - be declared an illiteracy-free territory. And three
million Venezuelans, who had always been excluded because of poverty,
are now part of primary, secondary and higher studies.

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One million four hundred and six thousand
Venezuelans learned to read and write. We are
25 million total. And the country will - in a few
days - be declared an illiteracy-free territory.
And three million Venezuelans, who had always
been excluded because of poverty, are now part
of primary, secondary and higher studies.

Seventeen million Venezuelans - almost 70% of
the population - are receiving, and, for the first
time, universal healthcare, including the
medicine, and in a few years, all Venezuelans
will have free access to an excellent healthcare
service. More than 1.7 million tons of food are
channeled to over 12 million people at
subsidized prices, almost half the population.

One million gets them completely free, as they
are in a transition period. More than 700,000
new jobs have been created, thus reducing
unemployment by 9 points. All of this amid
internal and external aggressions, including a
coup d'etat and an oil industry shutdown
organized by Washington.

Seventeen
million Venezuelans - almost 70% of the population - are receiving,
and, for the first time, universal healthcare, including the medicine,
and in a few years, all Venezuelans will have free access to an
excellent healthcare service. More than 1.7 million tons of food
are channeled to over 12 million people at subsidized prices,
almost half the population. One million gets them completely free,
as they are in a transition period. More than 700,000 new jobs
have been created, thus reducing unemployment by 9 points. All
of this amid internal and external aggressions, including a coup
d'etat and an oil industry shutdown organized by Washington.

Regardless
of the conspiracies, the lies spread by powerful media outlets,
and the permanent threat of the empire and its allies, they even
called for the assassination of a president. The only country
where a person is able to call for the assassination of a head
of state is the United States. Such was the case of a reverend
called Pat Robertson, very close to the White House: He called
for my assassination and he is a free person. That is international
terrorism!

We will fight
for Venezuela, for Latin American integration and the world. We
reaffirm our infinite faith in humankind. We are thirsty for peace
and justice in order to survive as a species. Simón Bolívar,
founding father of our country and guide of our revolution, swore
to never allow his hands to be idle or his soul to rest until
he had broken the shackles which bound us to the empire. Now is
the time to not allow our hands to be idle or our souls to rest
until we have saved humanity.

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